Carnegie Corporation of New York has funded work to address a variety of important issues. Move your mouse over the letters below for a list of issues and links to corresponding content.

Achievement Gap

Carnegie Corporation of New York addresses issues related to the Achievement Gap -- the gap in academic achievement that persists between minority and disadvantaged students and their white counterparts -- through the following programs:

Biological Weapons (Bioweapons)

Carnegie Corporation of New York has funded work to address issues related to biological weapons (bioweapons). While this work is no longer considered part of our current strategic focus and no longer receives funding, you may want to review recent Carnegie Corporation publications related to bioweapons on our Publications page including:
Crafting Policies to Control Biological Weapons (Carnegie Review, 2009) and
Biosecurity: A 21st Century Challenge (Carnegie Challenge Paper, 2005).

Campaign Finance Reform

Carnegie Corporation of New York addresses issues related to campaign finance reform through the following programs:

Disarmament

Early Childhood Development

Carnegie Corporation of New York has funded work to address issues related to Early Childhood Development. While this work is no longer considered part of our current strategic focus and no longer receives funding, you may want to review past Carnegie Corporation publications related to Early Childhood Development.

Education Accountability

Carnegie Corporation of New York addresses issues related to education accountability through the following programs:

News

TIME: Vartan Gregorian on the Myth of the Millionaire College Dropout

Vartan Gregorian writes in TIME’s Ideas blog about the latest assault on higher education. The philanthropic leader and former president of Brown University contends that Michael Ellsberg’s new volume, The Education of Millionaires, paints a misleading picture of the road to riches without a college degree.

Ellsberg’s conclusion, writes Gregorian, is that “higher education may sometimes be more a hindrance than a benefit to those seeking to thrive anywhere north of the poverty line.”

The Carnegie Corporation of New York President welcomes the “kind of robust debate about the value of higher education that [Ellsberg’s] book may engender.”

However, Gregorian goes on to caution readers that “what is forgotten in the discussion about dollars and cents is that the purpose of education, whatever its cost or its source, is not simply to enable one to earn a living but to prepare one for living over the course of an entire lifetime with all the ups and downs that come our way. This is particularly true of the liberal arts which, I believe, are the key to endowing students with the perspective for reflection upon the nature and texture of their own lives.”

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